Finance Operation Lead - Invoice to Pay

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Accounting / Finance require, MBA, PMP, Lean Principles preferred

• Minimum of 8 years of financial accounting experience, particularly in AP function

• Delivery of strategic processes through influence; Lead/implement process improvements; cross functional experience.

• Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions in complex and/or ambiguous business environments.

• Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure, handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines is essential

• Knowledge of Microsoft Visio is preferred

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Demonstrated successful performance in role of similar scope and breadth.

• Previous experience including Change Management

• History of building strong stakeholder and supplier relationships.

• Understands essential elements of procure-to-pay process (contracts, vendor master, purchase order creation, invoice process, disbursements process)

What will be your key responsibilities?

1.Financial Operations 

• Provide guidance to business partner organization, monitors & drives performance as well as collaborating on initiatives that drive overall health of ANZ/IND AP processes, with specific focus in managing balance of un-invoiced receipts and 3rd party trade balances. 

• Provides direction & maintains overall oversight for the accuracy and health of financial statement accounts. 

• Oversee scorecard results and work with key leaders to ensure business results stay on track.

• Direct complex ad hoc financial analysis and make recommendations to business challenges

• Ensure team is partnering with local stakeholders to drive improvements, reduce aged balances, and deliver insights

2.Delivers Results through Operation Team

• Delivers results through Operation team members while not having a direct reporting relationship.

• Owns on-going coaching to drive awareness of the Mars culture (Five Principles) and leadership competencies required to be successful within the global shared service organization ​

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3.Controls & Governance

• Drive Financial Ops to sustainable compliance by assessing the effectiveness of internal processes, controls and risks

• Provide control insight and framework to address execution issues and gaps in existing control environment

• Ensure all audit requests are fulfilled, serving as MGS-Finance AP owner for management action plans

• Maintain ownership of Internal Controls Environment (ICE) AP Framework

4.Continuous Improvement

• Continuously upskills to align with the S&F Capability Framework

• Lead standardization and documentation efforts across supported processes.

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5.Business Partner driving Operational Effectiveness

• Provide guidance to business partner organization, monitors & drives performance as well as collaborating on initiatives that drive overall health of ANZ/IND AP processes, with specific focus on invoice-to-pay, disbursements, logistics exception handling and vendor master data audit.  

• Direct the reporting and analytics team members to design operational metrics and dashboards; oversee scorecard results and work with key leaders to ensure business results stay on track.

• Direct complex ad hoc financial analysis and make recommendations to business challenges

• Ensure team is partnering with local stakeholders to drive improvements, reduce aged balances, and deliver insights

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6.Forecast Cash & Planning

• Develop methodology for forecasting cash weekly and periodically, develop forecast and analysis of changes, key initiatives impact, opportunities and risks, working with each unit to understand and anticipate business results, with a focus on working capital.

• Develop inputs for units annual operating plan and partner with units to identify short and long term opportunities for improvement in ANZ/IND’s Cash, including improving Net Working Capital  

7.Analytics & Insights

• Prepare and provide period end analysis of I2P results, analyze variance to forecast, explanation of key balance sheet accounts changes, metrics, provide insights, drivers, & recommend actions

• Identification of opportunities and follow through to implement best practices 

• Provide financial guidance to the functional teams to achieve current and future targets

• Develop relationships within across ANZ/IND and establish/implement best practices 

• Support period close and account reconciliations, including review and understanding of balance sheet accounts and variations

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.